Monday, November 7, 2011

Franklin Roosevelt, 1913

Franklin Roosevelt, 1913 by John McNab
Franklin Roosevelt, 1913, a photo by John McNab on Flickr.

Age 31, a New York state senator.

Eight years before the polio, twenty years before the White House.

"If anything happened to that man, I couldn't stand it. He is the truest friend; he has the farthest vision; he is the greatest man I have ever known."

-Winston Churchill, to Kenneth Pendar in 1943, as quoted in 'No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II' (1995) by Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 408.

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My dad's dad, my grandfather, was nine years old when President Lincoln died from an assassin's bullet. Most people think I am speaking of my GREAT GRANDFATHER. NO, I am referring to my dad's father, my paternal Grandfather, Robert Levi Huffstutter, born in 1856. What does this information have to do with my profile? It might help the reader understand that I have a sense of being much older than I am in that only one generation seperates me from President Lincoln. This causes me to respond differently to society and many current events. In many respects, this is to my benefit, in other respects it dates my mindset. Perhaps this is the reason I value the moral standards and idealogies of older Americans, the men who were the soldiers and sailors I saw when I was a small boy,the men and women who fought a war for freedom without any doubts posted by a media with a questionable lack of national unity and purpose.